Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20221a3fe410f996…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 14:13:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: c3eb348ec7f281918596ab8a090684aa SHA-1: 8e692649e3d696a5da17d3ef0196e010b7ce0cd9 SHA-256: 20221a3fe410f996ca33b9502f0ca5f819507ea197ed61950ac48c94a06558a6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document attempts to trick the user into installing a browser extension or update, a common tactic for credential theft or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it may exploit vulnerabilities or redirect to malicious sites to achieve its objective.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8258eafa69---xusoxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/12268826957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nocleginaplus.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/74821256828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4420ec7642f6c595c420418aac61c2cf/18399228098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b84da07c5fb6f5933c4e31884a626441/75120704678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbe1b74616b---85504043517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/83344423293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mednet.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/97551992944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d500857ceb---bofivoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/107e05d1f268addb20c10cd43ec27357/wotolopezutavudatamoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrumbiznesurawicz.pl/userfiles/file/lenipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nw-line.ru/generic/uploaded/wulimafeketa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio3.com/contents//files/xomomefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4774ce6c30---lalusadusolozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bce93cb9f81---popupesosuvofovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bcc6bdcbb---fekogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fece7ec58---malanutofozuxuziraxibobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/371720502e602d68856a58fed3a66a82/govudifojuwalapod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanurturizm.com/rsm/files/18607471227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/risonufemifolubonubukeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989a5a24e15---jewarijoresifevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/600ea0a0d27d4f503bc2f5599317cbf4/61501398373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmstead.tw/farmstead/upload/files/39412122107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/3238556774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=html+and+css+full+course+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA46 10780 bytes
SHA-256: a9ec9812cd85064a4b5dbb6fe68f44f124dc08a93c43d8ca01c3ab41e22cea00
font_01_sfnt_off0001030e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030E 18536 bytes
SHA-256: 37d6eff41c370bdaf0adf1da319b452c24628a172c902584ad83447872f0a3fd
font_02_sfnt_off00013414.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13414 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1